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TagOrdway’s “Sound of Music” summons old-world charm
Based on a true story, The Sound of Music tells the story of Maria Von Trapp, a young postulate at an Austrian abbey just before World War..
20% Theatre Company Twin Cities Brings Stereotypes To Heel With “Femmes: A Tragedy”
Gina Young’s 2013 play Femmes: A Tragedy has a clever, subversive premise. Young reimagines Clare Booth Luce’s 1936 play The Women — a com..
Choreographers’ Evening 2015: Walker Art Center Put the Dada in Dadance
There’s always a certain conceptual flavor to the Choreographers’ Evening — this is the Walker Art Center, after all — but this year’s col..
Guthrie Theater’s “Cocoanuts” Reheats the Marx Brothers
There’s an undeniable energy to the Guthrie Theater’s Cocoanuts — but I was left wondering whether there mightn’t have been a more interes..
British Arrows 2015: A Raucous Ride in the Spin Cycle
To watch this year’s finalists and award-winners for the British Arrows is to be reminded of why the media machine has become known as “th..
Guthrie Theater’s 2015 “Christmas Carol” Doesn’t Miss a Beat
Longtime followers of the Guthrie Theater’s Christmas Carol think of the succession of actors playing Ebenezer Scrooge as eras — the way B..
Soap Factory Haunted Basement 2015: Choose your own nightmare
I let my sister get abducted by Santa. She did come back, but she was bloody. At least, that splatter of red on the shoulder of her t-shir..
In Guthrie Theater’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a “Watchman” quietly waits
I didn’t read Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird until I reviewed it for a children’s literature class I was taking in college. On my revi..
Theatre Pro Rata Tells “A Lie of the Mind” with Vigor
When I was growing up, I was fascinated with my dad’s CD of the Red Clay Ramblers’ music for the original off-Broadway run of Sam Shepard’..
New “Cinderella,” at the Orpheum Theatre, fails to enchant
The production of Cinderella currently playing at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis is playwright Douglas Carter Beane’s 2013 adaptation ..
“Looking for Fun(Bags)” at the Minnesota Fringe Festival: Can you love a cad?
Looking for Fun(Bags), now being presented at the Ritz Theater Studio as part of the Minnesota Fringe Festival, raises a lot of red flags ..
“Reinventing the Wolf” at the Minnesota Fringe Festival: Allegories and a capella
I never really hung out with the a capella groups in college, so I can’t say exactly what they did with their Saturday nights, but the sce..